Why Arvind Kejriwal Is Borrowing the RSS Vocabulary of Supremacist Nationalism
That the Aam Aadmi Party is trying to beat the Bharatiya Janata Party at its own game has been evident over the past couple of years.
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Why Emperor Ashoka Still Matters
Reflections on the nature of remembering and perpetuating the ruler from the third century BCE and the link between the past and the present.
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Right Royal Parasite Is Dead – 2 Articles
The Queen contributed nothing to the common weal and represented all that is reactionary about the society in which she and her parasitic brood exist. The sheer extent of royal sponging off the public is something to behold. Also, a look at how the hereditary power of the royal family still has an impact on the course of British political life.
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Climate Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Climate imperialism has emerged as a new—and potentially even the most lethal—form of imperialism in the world economy today. Confronting it requires recognizing and dealing with all its different aspects. But it also requires addressing the monopolies of knowledge created by the WTO.
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America’s New Moment of Labor Mobilization
The summer has seen a steady stream of workforce mobilizations in the USA.
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Life Expectancy and Human Development in the 21st Century
If we accept that life expectancy is a good measure of human development, the latest data are revealing: Life expectancy fell in the U.S. in 2021 to its lowest since 1996, mainly due to COVID-19 deaths. In contrast, life expectancy China throughout the COVID pandemic!
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‘Painful March for Freedom’: The Triumphant Legacy of Palestinian Prisoners
Palestinians are resisting Israeli repression under the harshest circumstances and by every means available to them. Tellingly, the strongest of such resistance takes place inside prison walls, by gaunt looking, and often dying hunger strikers.
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Western Sahara Conflict: Analyzing the Illegal Occupation (1973-Present)
In this extensive interview, Zunes breaks down the history (1973-2022) of the political instability in the region. Zunes also highlights US diplomatic history, geography, and people of this historic borderland. He states how the press is “largely non-existent” on the matter.
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‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here’: The Hell-Gates of Dachau
Dachau was one of the most enduring institutions of Nazism, rising and falling with the Third Reich itself, as grotesque and brutal as the regime that conceived it.
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The Modi Government and the So-Called “Freebies”
A bizarre drama is unfolding in front of our eyes. The Modi government which has been giving away hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees as tax concessions to the monopolists, has expressed its opposition to what it calls “freebies”, that is, subsidies to other segments of the population.
